skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CEO agrees, per the article: "Marlinspike’s response, he told me in a conversation last week, was rooted in the idea that because Signal employees cannot see the content on their network, the app does not need a robust content policy."
Say more about how a blockchain ledger could allow verifying what software is running on a device?

The only way I can think of to actually do this is to have some trusted party go out and randomly sample voting machines (i.e. check the software on the disk matches the reproducible builds of the open source software, and decap the machine's CPU and other hardware to verify there's no bugs).

Anything else can be foiled by malicious software or hardware.
I used to live in Tanzania and over there, the trees are mostly shorter than the giraffes, but I'm sure they reach up to eat sometimes. I guess my point was that giraffes didn't evolve long necks to eat.
I don’t mean to say I’m not satisfied with being a hairless ape - I simply am what I am. But as much as I marvel at other species and even envy their abilities, I appreciate our own unique abilities as well. And of course, reflexively marvelling at human achievement is worth reflecting on. I do that quite a bit.

I personally think humans are largely pro-social, and this reflex is partially an extension of the human tendency to innately cheer for humanity. It seems literally in our nature to promote ourselves in this way.

At the end of the day, I’m largely vegetarian (I eat some fish) because rationally I know that I can’t really differentiate my human experience from that of a cow or chicken, and I’d rather not risk that killing and eating a cow would be no different from a cow killing and eating me. Space exploration isn’t enough for me to justify killing an animal that’s ultimately not much different from me.

Perhaps somehow we could learn that that’s ridiculous and all animals are basically robots and humans are the only conscience on the universe. Until then I’d rather assume some cow out there is wondering about humans and wondering why we aren’t as clever as they are.
the Color Maximite 2 might be what you are looking for - https://geoffg.net/maximite.html For sale from a variety of distributors worldwide either as a kit or pre-assembled. Has an interpreted as its primary language (inspired by GW BASIC) runs at around 400mghz (so it really flies) I/O similar to Arduino/Raspberry Pi, SD storage, USB keyboard inboard BASIC editor, etc.
So funny you say this. The two stocks that got me started were Shopify and data dog. I knew datadog was a great freshly IPOd cloud play, Shopify would boom due to the lockdowns. So I put a ton of money in Shopify calls at the March bottom, then rolled the profits into Data dog, then Apple and so on. It was absolutely my understanding of e-commerce that gave me the confidence. Also how lockdowns related to the cloud. It’s only been lately that I’ve taken shots on MEME stocks. Deep tech understanding, scouring cathie woods ARKK etf has been very profitable.

But I think from a broader perspective, I’ve made huge leveraged bets on VTSAX/SPY/IWM on stimulus news. Very obvious that financial assets will inflate with each extra fed move.
I'd disagree with that. Most companies in San Francisco/Bay Area pay salaries that more than make up for the increase in cost of living. I used to work at a startup before it was acquired by Google and my salary back then was more than enough for me to pay rent, travel around, eat out at nice restaurants every other day and engage in an unhealthy level of consumerism and still save thousands of dollars each month. Meanwhile, I had friends in Sacramento making ~$80k a year telling me how crazy I was for 'moving to such an expensive city', even though I was saving more money than they could.

Besides, as I said elsewhere, the benefits of living in the Bay Area aren't just that you may make more money, but how quickly you can advance your career. If you wanted to be making the big bucks in any of the big companies, working for a couple of years in the Bay Area will give you a much bigger chance of getting your foot in the door than working for 10 years anywhere else.
You might find the Parallax Propeller 2 interesting.

The earlier chip had that retro feel in the ways you describe, but it was just a bit small for computing.

The current one is pretty nice!

It is an 8 core multiprocessor. That may seem complex, but the way the cores are implemented is clever and generally useful without an OS though some are in development.

Each 250+ Mhz core has 2K private RAM, locally addressable by the core, and another 2K LUT lookup table RAM that can also hold code.

The system has 512Kb shared RAM that all cores have access to and that they can run code out of as well as manipulate data.

Here's the cool stuff:

Each core has a data streamer capable of many signals, display from old school NTSC through VGA AND HDMI. Audio, many other streamer modes and uses are available. One per core! It has a color transform engine meaning one can drive a TV with one, VGA with another, HDMI with another and have the colors all make sense from single or multiple display buffers.

This is all software driven and simple, meaning displays can be any mix of tiles, sprites, bitmaps, whatever.

All 64 pins have a smart pin state machine for measuring signals, other pins, and each pin has 8 bit ADC, DAC capability as well as simple digital mode signaling.

It can boot from a program on SD card, over serial, from eeprom.

Currently, there is a dev environment able to mix and match, SPIN, BASIC and C.

Again, each core runs independently. One can do crazy stuff like run an oscillosope on one core to display the signal output of another one, or an incoming signal from off chip.

Or, have one core emulate a CPU, while the others do hardware, video, sound chips.

In my view, it is a nice, robust system on chip. Definitely one person understandable, and if one wants an OS, write or use one of the ones in progress.

Or, just write simple programs and load up drivers onto the other cores to display, work with USB, serial, drive motors, whatever.

There is a Forth self hosted environment and others are being made.

I have enjoyed these devices for a while now and they are one of the closest things to older 8 bit systems around.

These are 32 bit systems and there are a lot of features I did not mention.
> The three castaways were looked after and briefly enslaved by the Makah Indian tribe.

Seems a bit brutish to enslave half-dead, washed-up youths.
Ok? So the capitol Police are equally incompetent? Not sure what point you are making.
Early pricing is always a bit experimental. This was anchored on the cost saving from software subscriptions. There's certainly room for improvement.
It's really great and one of the rare ones that's great until the end, and it ends purposefully and well.

My only comment about it is the first handful of episodes are the weakest. After the first half of the first season they tone down the Joe MacMillan character to be less of a kind of over the top trope anti-hero and more of a real character with depth and things get better. They're not bad early on, but you'd probably notice that and it's worth watching anyway.
It is definitely possible. It is a better worker bee.
That was actually brought up in Bush v Gore in 2000.

It was scotus decided that yes, legislatures can delegate powers, but no matter what they do; the legislature can never lose this power as it is specifically enumerated in Article 2.

This became moot in 2000 as the recount ended discussion.

Of the states in question, I do not believe GA, MI, or AZ legislatures delegated powers to the Gov or AGs, but I could be mistaken on that.
Assuming also that immunization did not emerge some other way also (like from getting the disease once) then yes I’d expect we would permanently change our way of life. What’s the alternative? Just accept the casualties year after year? For what? So we can eat at Olive Garden and go to football games?
What is the banana equivalent dose of working 8 hours a day in an old office building with granite stone floors, and granite wall paneling? I've read that all granite is slightly radioactive.
Arguably all started in the mid-to-late 70s when leadership in the US essentially threw in the towel on trying to improve the nation and started dismantling the country for profit. Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization does a very good job of illustrating this overall trend as it was reflected in the zeitgeist.
> "both the potential for their platform to be abused, and let’s face it, the potential for their platform to disappear off the face of the internet..."

The potential? Seriously? There is no question a service like this will be abused (Let's ask Erdogan this question). No serious criminal is going to NOT consider using Signal as a comms medium. People who need to evade snooping will use it. People who need privacy will use it.

As for the other. For this product, either you believe in your principles or you don't. It was the whole premise of the product. Without it, there is no need for it. There are "better" (easier) alternatives.

It's like building a back-up product and saying, you know, we could save costs by not always reliably having the expected data. Yes, true. But why have your product in the first place?
“In recent years the United States has seen more severe acts of political violence and deadlier riots than the events at the Capitol—but American guarantees of free speech apparently should not survive the shocking image of Nancy Pelosi’s office being ransacked. The notion that free expression is sedition’s handmaiden or that the prevention of treason should be a higher goal than the open exchange or exposure of allegedly dangerous arguments are not controversial views anymore; they pop up frequently, among putatively liberal-minded commentators in The Washington Post and The New York Times.”

We should all agree that any measure whatsoever is acceptable, in order to ensure that no Trump ever again may be elected.

Consider that people Voted for Trump, because of information they received.

You see the problem? How did these Trump voters receive this information?

Obviously, information must be controlled. It’s that simple. Now that we journalists have reached this consensus, you’ll be much safer and happier, and there won’t be any more of this unfortunate voting for people outside of our little club.

Edit: to be clear, I am satirizing the pro-censorship perspective.
How do you provide value to Betty who can't pay her rent from working at wal-mart.

& you build ur hierarchy of needs
It was probably really dumb.
So, Half Life 3 confirmed?
A nonsense FUD article. Bad actors will always find some way to communicate, and the intelligence failed even when they were doing so openly on mainstream networks. Go crack that nut first before breaking everybody's encryption, the consequences of which are far more detrimental for a free society.

Also, it does not hurt to point out that unlike Facebook, which is wired for clicks and "user engagement", Signal does not spread or profit from hate speech and disinformation, which is what got us into recent developments, but rather works like a private chat. So perhaps we have already made some progress by having these people switch over--their recruiting is likely to be severely affected if they rely on Signal for it.
We are arguing over semantics. Bank lending doesn’t create money, it creates debt. Issuing debt is only creating money if you don’t count liabilities. Is $100 liabilities and $100 assets, net $0 or net $200? Only in whacko-economics land is it considered $200.

If I receive a loaf of bread, and promise to give it back on demand, I record a liability of 1 loaf of bread and asset of 1 loaf of bread. If I then lend the bread to someone else, I still have 1 loaf liability and 1 loaf asset, but now the asset is a loan. How many bread loafs exist after I loaned it out? In whacko economics we have 2 bread loafs. In reality there is still 1 loaf of bread. No bread was created.

So you might say, “but IOUs are money, debt is money, and banks charge interest, so when they lend they increase net assets such that assets > liabilities.”

Yeah, so necessarily debt must be greater than money supply. Where does the net interest come from? What happens if there’s not enough money to service the debt? The central bank creates money. AKA “monetizing the debt” or “quantitative easing.” It’s the central bank that creates money, not bank loans. And they don’t borrow anything to do it.
I'm not sure about the kernel alone, but the last time I tried to build the entire pfSense system (a few years ago, but still in the 2.4.x era) using the build.sh in the pfsense/pfsense repo it fell apart due to references to Netgate internal package repositories with no information on how to replicate these.

Asking about it in the official subreddit resulted in responses ranging from unhelpful to hostile.
Aurora charges $0.20 per 1 million requests...your IO would have gotten expensive. It's also still stuck on PostgreSQL 11.9.
They could put virality limiters on content, for example limiting the number of times a message can be forwarded. WhatsApp is known to have done this. They could also let people report users (and unmask their content) and ban them if they get enough reports. They could also push out clientside hash checking of controversial content once they’ve received reports and stop it from propagating there - just get the database from GIFCT. If group membership can be seen by others in the group, they could also take reports of group membership from NGO or government observers and ban everyone in the group. One does not simply chat online.
Well so far it looks like Signal is doing a good job of routing around this damage.
Great work and I am glad this show is building a cult following. I consider the later 3 seasons of the show as the third best TV series I have seen in the past decade (behind only True Detective S1 and Chernobyl). If you have been struggling with the first season, consider sticking with it!
Just looked up John Titor on Wikipedia:

John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war, none of which came true. Subsequent closer examination of Titor's assertions provoked widespread skepticism. Inconsistencies in his explanations, the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private investigator's findings all led to the general impression that the entire episode was an elaborate hoax.

Sounds more than a bit like QAnon, at least in design if not reach or effect.
But aren’t those things cheaper because there are more taxes? And more taxes mean less salary?
Embedded SQL is also quite common.
I've probably said this before, but I was a computer engineer in Texas in the 80s and this show captures that culture perfectly.* I first learned "Halt and Catch Fire" as an obscure illegal instruction on the 6800 processor that would lock it up. When I heard about this show my first reaction was "How dare they title a show with a meme from an obscure part of my hindbrain! Guess I can't use that for a password any more."

*Well almost perfectly. I don't remember many engineers or coders being as attractive as the actors on this show.
I don't see how parents sending their children to a public school from 9am to 3pm does not count as properly looking out for them. If that option is taken from them by their government and no form of relief or substitute is provided in its place, it's the government which is not meeting childrens' needs.
That isn't mutually exclusive with the idea a non-trivial number of people lack them.
Just got my Google Ads account suspended for supposedly violating their “circumventing systems” policy. But I hadn’t even touched the account in months, and before that I ran it for years without issues. Never did anything remotely fishy or against the guidelines, never got any warnings either. The only time I can even remember having issues with an ad was because we inadvertently changed the url of a landing page, hence producing a 404 on the link in the ad, which we quickly corrected after being notified.

And of course Google won’t even tell me the exact reason why they made a decision, so I can’t do anything about it. Their policies are super vague and broad, so in some sense almost anything could be interpreted to be against their guidelines as well. And they told me to not even try creating another account with either another name or email, because they’ll find them and block them as well.

Given there isn’t really a true alternative to google ads (no other company is allowed to run ads on Google results), and they dominate 80%+ of the search market. Actions like what happened to me, especially without a clear explanation, definitely feels like an abuse.

Being a bit cynic, if I had to guess the real reason behind the suspension of my account, I would say it’s because I didn’t implement almost any of their BS “enhancement” recommendations, which really were just thinly disguised efforts to get me to increase my spend.
> There was an insurrection on the US capitol due to extremists and online communication tools were a big part of this

...which was handily rebuffed. You're overstating it.

The question is: How much liberty and privacy are you willing to give up to prevent that from happening again?

For me, the answer is zero. The next batch of idiots are welcome to come and take their turn getting arrested next week. It is offensive and disturbing yes, but not a real threat to democracy. And there's no 8chan in prison, so this problem will sort itself out eventually.
Less job stress for workers at financially transparent firms
Services, yes. Code is shared across the board at no cost.
Mmmm, yes, let's compare:

- A group storming the capitol of the US after being fed a steady stream of lies regarding an election result, with the President himself pushing them to go.

versus

- A group protesting after yet-another-person-of-color was murdered, pushing for equality and a check on police brutality.

Totally checks out. ;P
Everything is very tightly connected now. Products and food are produced very far away and does an impressive bit of traveling during assembly. It's a supper efficient approach but not very robust. It is hard to get an idea of the knowledge hidden/locked in proprietary property but one can expect it to be truly advanced. It would take decades to replicate for other companies.
What can you run it on though? The engine weighs 160kb
I was refering specifically to the complaint about print vs print(). 2to3 will take care of that.
Six dollars a month isn't small scale?
If you're doing this more "quick and easy developer" style, Backblaze is definitely something worth following up. B2 would be way better for the cost ($0.005/gb). DO Spaces, Linode Object Storage and AWS S3 are all about the same price ($0.02/gb).
There is a truly excellent children’s book about the discovery of the Patagotitan, also in Argentina. It was my son’s favorite story for months. Highly Recommended!

https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/book/titanosaur-by-jose-lui...
You may also be interested in rclone if you're not aware of it already.
There's strong evidence that all life on this planet can trace back to a single strand of DNA, which evolved exactly once in our billions of years.

For example, if I understand this correctly, a random jumble of DNA as you describe would have a 50/50 chance of twisting to the right or twisting to the left. And yet all life on earth uses DNA that is "right handed" twisting to the right.
What's the idea behind selling this out in the clear ?
> What's currently stopping some third party from creating a fork of Android with a better store?

A huge piece of it is the network effect of starting with a store that lacks a significant number of apps available on the Play store. Sure, a competitor could, over time, grow their store to be competitive, or they could fail to tread water and go the way of Windows phones.
Why are SWEs paid so much less in Canada vs US?
Lots of random thoughts but no conclusions

* How much does the government have to spend per person?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...

* What are the government's expenses?

From that wikipedia article the USA has 80% of what Finland has per person. But I'm only guessing 50% of that 80% goes to the military (we can argue if that's good or bad. I'm just guessing that most countries get to use more of their $ per person for other things?)

* How much does weather play a role?

Being homeless in Los Angeles is probably much more doable than Finland? Does this influence the number of people who are homeless?

* Does Oil play a role?

I think for Finland no? But Norway and Denmark apparently get lots of their budgets from oil. What happens to their social programs as we switch to renewables? (not sure it's relevant to a story about Finland but also not sure if there is some similar way government gets money or not. It does seem relevant to the general stereotype of countries in that area doing well for their citizens. If they've got a free money supply. Of course I'm totally uninformed about any of this.
North Korean hackers are targeting security researchers with malware, 0-days
>I am almost willing to bet $$$ that they would be fine if they had JS disabled.

The attack vector was spearphishing followed by convincing the target to compile a project, where the makefile contained malware. No JS involved.
You could look at Joe as exploring how Steve Jobs could have turned out differently.
I mean, what if the type I deserialize into is the same (my current domain object type), but I have to deserialize two (or more) different versions of json into it.

I think what you linked is the case where my domain object type is either A or B - but that's not what I meant.
Curious if that bulk data is going via Aspera protocol, or what other accommodation is made for the extreme bandwidth-delay product.
My recollection was that Gordon's wife (why don't we just call her Donna?) was the competent one. Gordon was a bit of a bumbling fool, wasn't he?
The Dumbing Down of Programming (1998)
snap.

dame paper, different links.
The point is that it's good for a company to be willing to discuss these things. If Signal had a culture where the principles and direction of the company are beyond discussion, that'd be a problem - both because it would make Signal a worse place to work, and because it would make compromising the spirit of the principles much easier.

It's probably helpful to look at a less emotionally charged principle like "customer focused". If your company enshrines "customer focus" as an inviolate principle, and nobody's comfortable discussing the value or meaning of "customer focus", you won't end up with a laser focus on the customer. You'll end up rudderless, because anyone skilled at office politics can justify whatever they want to do by declaring it customer focused.
The machines in question vary in type, but most are scanners to aid in counting paper ballots. The others are touchscreen entry devices that print a paper ballot as a hard copy. Hand recounts of the paper ballots have been done -- statewide in Georgia, in one county in Michigan -- and not shown that the machines switched votes as alleged by Giuliani and pals. From here the conversation devolves into conspiracies about how the hand recounts weren't real recounts or fake ballots were printed to match the machine totals or something.

At which point the voting machine's role really doesn't matter because the fact is the people making these claims don't trust the paper ballot count either.
> How do you find a business ideas?

Watch out for unbundlings ... https://twitter.com/notoriousarun/status/1351529651567398917